out of the top stories here. except international aid to help. president. rejected the offer of $20000000.00 from g 7 leaders. after 3 were killed in 2 separate. groups linked to. code for his 2nd corruption trial the 66 year old is facing $25.00 charges including money laundering. political leaders and locals have been detained in indian administered kashmir since india revoked the region's autonomy earlier this month bought the government is refusing to say how many people are being held in custody. in.

outside main jail people wait for news of their relatives inside there the families of people detained by security forces since new delhi revoked the region's autonomy . family travel every 10 days from about 100 kilometers north of srinagar where her husband was detained by security forces for being a separatist activist she says officials told her he would be released shortly then he was sent to. us it's really difficult to get inside and meet because we have to get frisked at least. we even have to open and nothing is allowed to be taken inside we have to wait for hours. to 20 minutes. says his son was taken in the middle of the night from his home but hasn't had any case filed against him now he's learned his son is no longer in the region.

5 days now i have been told he's been moved to august. that's a city more than a 1000 kilometers away where many political leaders have also been detained others are being kept here at this resort hotel turned prison indian officials declined to comment on how many people have been detained human rights groups say because of the restrictions they can't investigate do you mean people are being continued unprecedented. we have tools from different. people who have been detained on intelligence. there have been accusations of torture al-jazeera spoke to this 22 year old man who doesn't want to be identified for fear of reprisal he says he was picked up by security forces when the restrictions 1st began and i was beaten for over an hour. he says i was a stolen tour i told them i don't know if they have

a shred of evidence and then go ahead and beat me but they didn't listen and then gave me an electric shock then they said give us an email full story i told them i don't know anyone but they didn't listen al-jazeera can't independently verify those accusations but human rights groups have documented cases of torture in the past meanwhile more people are being detained how long political leaders and an unknown number of local people will be detained indian officials won't say all the relatives can do is queue outside prisons and hope for news. indeed and mr bashir. protests as in hong kong are now turning their anger towards the airline cafe persists sick after 12 weeks of rallies demonstrators are gathering at the central financial district after more than 20 cathay pacific self were fired for protesting it follows a weekend of marches where protests is true bombs and bricks at riot police beijing

has demanded the airline suspend staff involved in also holding the rallies. the presidents of turkey and russia say they hope to work together to ease tension in labor moves that could help decide the course of the syrian conflict government forces backed by russia have launched a ground offensive in the province one of the last rebel held areas in syria turkey those support some rebel groups and says the fighting is putting its troops in danger severson has more from the talks in zukowski just outside moscow. it was an unusual venue for the hastily organized high level meeting before the situation in syria it liberal of the could be discussed turkish president ratchet type out a one was treated to a show of russia's latest abilities. and had russian ice cream then they

discussed the issue of the turkish president really travel to moscow for the escalating violence and calling it a humanitarian tragedy one came to ask let me put in to rein in syrian forces but put in there not me and he promises to raise the. terrorist continue to show russian positions and syrian forces but try to attack russian bases we hope that the deescalation zone will be a refuge for the rebels and should not be a platform to make attacks we discuss joint measures to neutralize terrorist hotbeds and and to normalize the situation in this region and in syria as a whole. angered by an attack on a turkish convoy in northern syria earlier this month. the surrounding of one of turkey's observation post had the behavior of syrian forces is unacceptable. the provocations by the regime have reached an acceptable level i would like to say it is especially by our borders our right to self-defense and this leaves us no

choice we have to act to protect ourselves russian and turkey have been fighting on opposite sides of the war in syria but the relationship has grown closer in recent years with increasing economic and military ties during adolescence fitted to put into gear so both leaders couldn't stress enough how close their nations have become symbolizing this was a good liberal of the russian as 400 anti-missile defense system to turkey on tuesday but despite the warm words the focus was on the differences in eclipse and if putin can make sure that at a one doesn't go home empty handed while erdogan might not have got what he wanted in it live his host put in make sure their friendship was in good shape stepped past al-jazeera moscow presidents putin and went on to welcome the creation of a so-called saved in north eastern syria kurdish led forces have started to withdraw

from an area close to the border with turkey and this is all part of a deal between ankara and washington the syrian democratic forces of the s.c.f. have been an important u.s. ally in the fight against isel but turkey considers this kurdish group a terrorist organization the afghan officials say taliban fighters of killed at least 14 members of a pro-government militia in the west of the country it happened in the province of herat with several others wounded the attack comes as the taliban and the u.s. finalize a deal aimed at ending the 18 year conflict. torrential rain and floods have killed more than 60 people in sudan in the past week thousands of being forced to abandon their homes out as there is have been morgan ripple drawn really just north of the capital to where water levels are expected to rise. in sudan's khartoum state is normally home to more than $5000.00 people now it's been overrun

by the nile along with it the farmlands are running along its bank farmers like sam and his family are forced to gather the little they have left and leave for drier lands. alerted me to the because i've lost almost everything but i'm better off than a lot of others the farming areas we had here been completely destroyed by the floods so i mean is one of at least 190000 people who've been forced out of their homes due to rains and floods in the past 3 weeks across the country. 17 of sudan's 18 states have been affected and more than 20000 homes have been destroyed people living along the banks of the nile river have suffered the most because of the floods or drama that has become a largely empty town with most of its houses either partially underwater or completely destroyed many of the people here have sought shelter at a nearby camp and those who remain are waiting to leave with their belongings as well. those who have moved to the camp say they're worried about how long they'll have to stay there are warnings there now could continue to swell. we're now in

a camp that we don't own anything i have left with only one of my children i can't continue to live in a camp where there are little services in the army we don't want i had already things but for the government to give us a plot of land to stay on to give us lands to compensate for the ones we've lost in the floods the disaster management committee in would really say they are also other concerns and that's the other really you don't even and then there's at least 1200 families but not enough tents there are no lights or electricity we need the authorities to respond with more tents and there's an issue of access to clean water we also need more security. just last week residents of wood rumbly had been helping people in neighboring areas who were the 1st to be affected by the floods now they need assistance as they try to salvage the little they have left if they're not relocated they'll be forced to wait for the floodwaters to retreat so they can go back home or to what was once home he will morgan al-jazeera would

probably khartoum flash floods have killed at least 3 people in mauritania many were caught by surprise when the heavy rains in the southern part of the country fever we're seeing desperately trying to save lives as a fast moving water swept across the region hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes after flooding and landslides in japan 2 people were killed the local government has issued an emergency warning for parts of the northern island of key issue the military has sent in troops to help. now dozens of people have been killed in a bar fire in mexico which happened on tuesday night in the southeastern city of. course state officials have confirmed 23 people have died at least 13 more seriously injured police are investigating if the fire was set deliberately. the u.s. and mexico have reached an age a deal 8 months ago which would allow the 10s of thousands of asylum seekers to

stay in mexico and wait for their herrings there the central american migrants were promised jobs and shelter under what was known as the remain in mexico planned out as john the home and ripples from the border town of this is simply not happening. roland his son the well are heading home they too have an estimated $40000.00 u.s. asylum seekers mostly from guatemala el salvador and like them from honduras but over the border into mexico to wait for their process to play out it's a relatively new deal before they would have waited in the u.s. mexico's president promised work health and education while they're here for the noel hasn't materialized. up alone on the final play when all we haven't got the documents to work here and we can't leave the shelter because it's dangerous around here and my son can't go to school either together or he says given the 5 month wait before his asylum hearing next january he's got no choice but to go home it's

happening all over to quanah where there are close 212000 u.s. asylum seekers. churches and charities not the government running the show says that house them providing classes for their children a meal since many have been issued to be easiest to work. the school the government has a double discourse it said there's a lot of opportunities for migrants in mexico and they welcome the team practice we haven't seen a lot of support. we reached out to several mets can migrant shelters in different cities they all said the same he who cares is written on the in june i asked president why the government wasn't doing more he said it had a plan 440000 jobs in border factories for the migrants and it would cut through any visa bureaucracy there's a few months later one of the border factory owners so they do have those vacancies but the government hasn't helped to get them filled. with work there. i think

they have to work faster at the end they have to. not fast enough. meanwhile there's asylum seekers continue to arrive private shelters have actually had the government funds cut despite the lack of a state shelter here i asked the federal representative why shouldn't. they have been founded by altruistic people but they're not part of the stace the big problem is that the state never took care of migrants but now it's doing this it's providing a shelter for them. he says that there will be a governmental shelter working from this week ready to house 5000 has been promised not to live it. but if it does appear many like role in the world will already have vanished their american dream with the. john home and out 0 to one

a. time for us to take a look at the top stories here it is there are brazil now says it will accept foreign aid to help fight fires ravaging the amazon president diable sonera initially rejected an offer of 20 $1000000.00 from g 7 leaders brazil though is insisting that it will have control on the how to use the money how mass is declared a state of alert ingles after $3.00 police officers were killed in 2 separate suicide attacks it's thought they were carried out by groups affiliated to eisele. that most of these events only serve the israeli occupation which tried to stab the palestinian resistance in the back what the occupation could not achieve by launching was on gaza not be achieved by such bombings malaysia's former prime minister najib razak is in court for his 2nd of several corruption trials the 66

year old is facing $25.00 charges including those of money laundering he's accused of using his position to siphon off 500000000 dollars from estate investment fund afghan officials say the taliban have killed at least 14 members of a pro-government militia in the west of the country it happened during violence in the province of head at so several others wounded its hack comes as the taliban and the u.s. are finalizing a deal leading to the possible withdrawal of u.s. led troops. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes after flooding and landslides in japan 2 people have died and emergency warnings been issued for parts of the northern island of cuba shoe. protested in hong kong are turning their anger towards the airline cathay pacific after 12 weeks of rallies demonstrators are gathering at the central financial district after more

than 20 of the carrier's staff were fired for protesting beijing is demanded the airline suspend staff involved in or supporting the rallies dozens of people have been killed in a bar fire in mexico it happened on tuesday night in the south eastern city of co-opts a koala cos state officials have confirmed 23 people died at least 13 seriously injured all right up to date those are the very latest headlines from coming up next the strain in afghanistan the taliban is renowned for its violent repression and now a new deal with the u.s. could see the group return to power one on one eastern best to gates you can really pay the price for pace on al-jazeera. ok clear goal still light on. as excellent studio mikes do the shows

they're not that small. smart devices certainly make our life easier but security experts say there is a dark side to the technology i'm really could be i've got me ok today we asked the experts what's your advice know about us what are your thoughts tweet us or leave a comment in our live you tube chat and you too can be in the stream. voice recognition has become commonplace for millions of people around the world who use the virtual assistants that come with asphalt phones and speakers and while these high powered help us quietly listen. who else is on the other end whistleblowers from apple google and amazon claim workers regularly listen to personal conversations like those between a doctor and patient as well as sexual encounters and even criminal acts should we be concerned and if so how do we protect ourselves joining us to discuss this in

san francisco california right a futurist and technology like south. in san diego california sandra daly he's a cyber security researcher and in new york lily hay neuman she's a reporter at wired focusing on information security digital privacy and hacking welcome everyone it's good to have you here let me let's start with you if you have a device that has a microphone on it should we assume that it is is listening to us or is that just being paranoid. yeah it's not specifically that the device is always listening what's happened with these revelations is that it turns out that in some cases snippets of your audio were being reviewed by real people 3rd party reviewers who were transcribing the information and trying to check whether the digital systems were getting the right information out of your requests to the device so it's not an all the time listening but it's maybe more of

a human component than users realize some people any idea what that might look like is a home office full of people we've had phone saying listen to me trying to put my shopping list together. and it very well could be very well could be you know google was discovered to have been sub contracting out for its google assistance and there was a flemish news agency reported on these contractors. reading or listening and transcribing these google voice calls and so there could be quite a number and we actually are unable to.